That is so cool that you remember all that Canary. BZ Also had a couple other features
- Can see in real time when someone is typing a response to a post
- Theads moves to the top of the list in real time
- Green light next to threads if someone responded to YOUR post
- Senate / Democracy system with the ability to senators to introduce "bills" to propose rule changes and appoint mods
- Reputation system
- Chat system was a lot easier imo
- Page load speed was faster than here
- The list of online users only showed TRULY online users-- where this website shows people who are offline too which is weird to me
- No stickies because I did not believe in empowering mods
- Log of moderator actions for transparency
- The ability for any user to create their own forum, customize its look with CSS, set it as invite-only etc
I still have BZ but it costs over 100 dollars per month to host. I am too poor for that right now so maybe someday when I have more money... also the code is a little too complicated for me as a ton of it was written by Michael and he refuses to work on it anymore
I am building a new forum though for my website I am building which will track the Us Natural gas market. I'm going to focus that site on being about simplicty, speed, and low server costs lol
Threads here also move to the top of the list in real time. I only disabled this temporary last week, but its been since the start. I should enable it again today or tomorrow.
Chat system was simpler, otherwise the same
Page load was WAY WAY WAY WAY slower. I fucking hate that so much I didnt even visit the site on some days because it took too long.
I dont really care about the rest, but i had to correct your speed claim, as thats absurd.